{"product_id":"the-forgotten-room-inside-a-public-alternative-school-for-at-risk-youth","title":"Forgotten Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eLocated in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer: kids who have dealt drugs, attempted rape, brought weapons to school, and made terrorist threats. Neglect, understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation; Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their therapeutic philosophies barely intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting troubled teens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to make ethnographic studies more accessible. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Room\u003c\/i\u003e breaks down the walls between social science and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54185498706264,"sku":null,"price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780739134962.jpg?v=1769887819","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-forgotten-room-inside-a-public-alternative-school-for-at-risk-youth","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}